The ten most-read news stories on the CMU site in 2015

I said earlier that we only had one more batch of popular articles to look through before we could properly move into 2016. That, of course, was not true. Sure, looking through our most-read news stories of December is nice, but what everyone wants to know is: what were the ten most traffic-hungry articles during the whole of 2015? And in a hundred years when this list is dug out of the ground, what will it tell future generations about 2015?

Well, it was the year that The Pirate Bay still remained online. It was the year that Grooveshark went offline but then popped up again (several times) in cloned form. It was the year that the NHS remained under threat of privatisation, despite the best efforts of Enter Shikari. It was the year Radiohead really lost their rag with their old record label.

It was the year that people remained confused about radio station rebrands. It was the year politicians remained confused about copyright. It was the year Spike Lee got shirty about a music supervisor using his name for profit. It was the year the US movie industry backed down on its latest attempt to bring web-blocks to America. It was the year Bono fell off a bicycle.

But most of all, I am sure, 2015 will be remembered as the year someone threw some sugar at Adam Levine from Maroon 5.